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YAVVCOB'S Dribulations 



BY 

YAWCOB STRAUSS 

(Charles Follen ""Adams.) 



L. Prang & Co. 



BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A. 



Vawcok^ Dr^ikijlanon^. 



Maybe dot you don'd rememper, 

Eighdeen — dwendy years ago, 
How I dold aboudt mine Yawcob — 

Uot young rashkell, donVl you know, 
Who got schicken-box und measles; 

Filled mine bipe mit Limburg scheeze; 
Cut mine cane up indo dhrum-schticks, 

Und blav all sooch dricks as dhese. 



Veil! dhose times dhey vas been ofer, 

Und dot son off mine, py shings! 
Now vas taller as hees fader, 

Und vas oup to all sooch dhings 
Like shimnastic dricks und pase pall; 

Und der oder day he say 
Dot he boxes mit '' adthledics," 

Somevheres ofer on Back Bay. 



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Times vas deeferent, now, I dold you, 

As vhen he vas been a lad; 
Dhen Katrine she make hees drowsers 

Vrom der oldt vones off hees dad ; 
Dhey vas cnt so full und baggy 

Dot id dook more as a fool 
To find oudt eef he vas going, 

Or vas coming home vrom school. 



Now, dhere vas no making ofer 

Off mine clothes to make a suit 
For dot poy — der times vas schanged ; 

" Der leg vas on der oder boot"; 
For vhen hees drowsers dhey gets dhin, 

Und sort off '' schlazy " roundt der knee, 
Dot Mrs. Strauss she dake der sceessors 

Und she cuts dhem down for me. 



Shust der oder day dot Yawcob 

Gife me von elecdric shock, 
Vlien he say he vants life-hundord 

To invesht in railroadt schtock. 
Dhen I dell him id vas beddher 

Dot he leaf der schtocks alone, 
Or some feller dot vos schmardter 

Dake der meat und leaf der bone. 



Und vhen I vas got oxcited, 

Und say he get "schwiped" und fooled 
Dhen he say he haf a "pointer" 

Und do'n. """" ^'"'"^'^ °ff Sage und Gould ; 
Und dot he vas on "rock bottom "• 

Had der "inside track" on "Atch-" 
Dot vas too mooch for hees fader, 
Und I coom oup to der scratch 



Dhen in bolitics he dabbles, 

Und all qvesdions, great und schmall, 
Make no deeferent to dot Yawcob — 

For dot poy he knows id all. 
Und he say dot dhose oldt fogies 

Must be laid oup on der shelf, 
Und der governors und mayors 

Should pe young men — like himself 



Veil ! I vish I vas dransborted 

To dhose days off long ago, 
Vhen dot schafer beat der milk-ban, 

Und schkydoodled droo der schnow. 
I could schtand der mumbs und measles, 

Und der ruckshuns in der house; 
Budt mine presendt dribulations 

Vas too mooch for Meester Strauss. 



